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Paolo Nespoli VITA Mission Launch LIVE

Fri, Jul 28, 2017 | 14:45 - 00:20 GMT | 16:45 - 02:20 CEST

ESA TV Live – 16:9

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli will fly for the third time to the International Space Station this 28 July on a Soyuz capsule with crewmates Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky and US astronaut Randy Bresnik.

His mission, called VITA, is part of a barter agreement between NASA and Italy’s ASI space agency involving ESA astronauts.

Launch : 1445-1630 GMT (test signal up at 1415GMT). It will include B-roll feeds of crew arrival and preparation in Baikonur and of the launch-day activities with crew suit-up, walk-out and last wave as they board the launcher.

Docking: 2115-2210 GMT

Hatch-opening/welcome ceremony: 2300-0010 GMT

All transmissions will be carried on ESA web and highlights will be posted to the ESA TV ftp server as soon as possible at: